Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Ghostbusters: The Video Game

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Ghostbusters under Win 10
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Step 1
How to run the game on Windows 10
Hello, i noticed many have problems in starting the game on Windows 10, including me. But i found an easy fix.


1.) Go to your Ghostbusters folder
2.) Right click on Game.exe
3:) Click on Properties
4.) Click on Compatibility
5.) Set compatibility mode to Windows XP (Service Pack 3) and click on Apply

Done!
Step 2
Getting playable FPS
I found by Robin Hoodsomething whats help.

I dosnt need step 1 only step 2 mabay you need it.

1) Download the following... http://188.138.113.72/SHARE/rpollice/DSWin8.zip
1.1) Unrar the downloaded file (DSWin8.zip) and you should have two files in the extracted folder (ddraw.dll and aqrit.cfg).
1.2) Place these two files into your "Steam\SteamApps\Common\Ghostbusters" directory (in with the game.exe).

2) Download V2_02_90_build.rar of DxWnd from... http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/files/Latest%20build/
(I've been advised by other users that the newer versions don't work for the purpose of running this game.)

3) Unrar and inside the extracted foler and run "dxwnd.exe" as administrator. Go to "Edit->Add", in parameter "Name" set the name as Ghostbusters.
4) In parameter "Path" choose the .exe file of the game (in my case it looks like Steam\SteamApps\common\Ghostbusters\ghost_w32).
5) In the "Main" tab, under "Generic" untick "Run in Window".
5.1) Also in "Main" tab, under "Position" set "Window initial position & size" to X=0 and Y=0. Set "W" and "H" to your native resolution (in my case that's W=1920 and H=1080).
6) In the "Video" tab, under "Windows handling" tick "Modal Style" and under "Color management" tick "Set 16BPP RGB565 encoding".
7) Next in "Input" tab tick "Hide Cursor". If the cursor flickers on the main screen of the game don't worry, it works fine in-game.
8) Lastly click "OK" in dxwnd, if all is good it will show a green circle before the name of the game in DxWnd. Launch the game in Steam (Not in DxWnd itself, DxWnd runs in the backround!). You may get an error/alert that says something like "SetHook: proc=GetAvailableVidMem(D) oldhook=26b3e0". If this happens just press the Return key on your keyboard. If you can't select the error/alert window use Alt+Tab keys to cycle through the open windows. This part is just a bit of a trial and error, I don't know why it happens but you can get past it.
9) You will need to start DxWnd every time before you launch the game. When you close dxwnd, answer "Yes" to save the options that you changed. That's it...


I hope these fixes work for you aswell and if they do then have fun playing! :)
Step 3
Very important is thats you no control has connected.
I have a Roccat Gamer Mouse , i have to disconected when i start the Game.
After the start of the program i can conect the mouse again and thay works.

6 Comments
Major Gooseage 31 Aug, 2021 @ 7:34am 
no problems with Windows 10 with RTX 2060, didn't need any of this.
YellowJello 12 Dec, 2020 @ 6:15pm 
Download doesn't work.
NASCAR  [author] 30 Apr, 2020 @ 6:19pm 
LOL!!! i did it because i have isuess
H 20 Apr, 2020 @ 5:11pm 
lol works on windows 10
NASCAR  [author] 18 May, 2017 @ 5:17am 
i have problems whit out this on top and very importent is step 3 whit out ist the game not running
ed 17 May, 2017 @ 10:01am 
dude it works on windows 10 anyways bruh.